You pick up a carton of eggs on your grocery run, checking to make sure they’re all intact before adding them to your cart. But have you ever thought about the size of those eggs? Probably not, right?

A reader asked: “Grocery stores are now selling extra large eggs. Do I have to worry about equivalencies in recipes?” Here’s how egg sizes are measured and when you need to factor different sizes into ...

Not all eggs are created equal. Medium eggs contain about 1 ¾ ounces of liquid, or just under ¼ cup. Large eggs, the most popular size used in our recipes, have about 2 ounces of liquid or ¼ cup.